Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 14:10:38 +0200 (SAT) From: Tony Harverson <tony@hornet.netac.co.za> To: tbrown@icon-stl.net (Timothy C. Brown) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel compilation problem Message-ID: <199512191210.OAA02466@hornet.netac.co.za> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.951212090204.15679A-100000@server.icon-stl.net> from "Timothy C. Brown" at Dec 12, 95 09:06:10 am
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> > On a clean install of FreeBSD v2.1, I have the following problem, with > the kernel compiling fine up to this point... my options file is attached. > Does anybody have any ideas? I'm a FreeBSD newbie ... > > BTW: Don't know if this would matter, but it is a P75 w/ 8MB of RAM. > -- > edison# make > loading kernel > kern_sysctl.o: Undefined symbol `_hw_float' referenced from text segment > *** Error code 1 > > Stop. > edison# exit > #device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr This line is a problem - the npx device is non-optional and must not be commented out (it's the interface to either the software or hardware numerical co-processor). Uncomment it and your compile problems will go away. This came up a while ago, and things were suggested from better documentation in GENERIC to disabling the option. What was the descision there ? are we going to decument it, or leave it outa the config file ? (on another note : why is it in the config file ? It's non-optional, so no-one should ever want to take it out. latez Tony
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